Technician Engineering
Resume:
Elijah Amarh
East Orange, NJ 07018
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SUMMARY:
Experienced, self-motivated, Scientist I who works well with minimum supervision and with strong
ability to work in multiple cross functional teams. Able to set up, operate and maintain lab instruments,
monitor experiments, make observations, calculate and record results and develop conclusions.
EDUCATION:
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ May 2012
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ May 2015
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
SKILLS:
Instrumental
• Wet chemistry: pH, titration and conductivity
• HPLC, GPC, FTIR, Bomb Calorimeter, Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, viscometry,
flash point, Karl Fisher water analysis and Instron 5565
RELEVANT COURSE WORK:
Process Dynamics, Process Control, Chemical Engineering Laboratory I &II, Thermodynamics,
Fluid Flow Mechanics, Processing of Materials, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
CERTIFICATION AND CAREER TRAINING:
• Certificates from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers:
o Safety in Chemical Process Industries (DIERS)
o Process Safety Lessons Taught From Experience
• cGMP, GCP, ICP, SW846, ASTM, ICH, OSHA laboratory safety and FDA requirements
• Six Sigma
SOFTWARE:
Logger Pro, Aspen, MatLab, Gant Charts, Minitab, Polymath, Publisher, AutoCAD, Lotus Notes,
SAP, and MS: Word, Excel: (Pivot table, V-lookup, Macros, Access, Visio, and PowerPoint).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Mondeleze International, Whippany, NJ August 2013 – Present
Scientist I
• Provide strategic support to the product development team and to current product improvement
initiatives
• Collaborate with processing engineers and R&D scientists to generate prototypes in pilot plant
trials
• Design and conduct laboratory experiments to collect data impacting pending product launches
• Source and organize samples for consumer science studies
• Set up, operate and maintain laboratory instruments, monitor experiments, make observations,
calculations and record results, and develop conclusions
• GMP, GLP, FDA, RCRA, and OSHA knowledge
Pinnacle Foods, Parsippany NJ April 2013 – July 2013
Packaging Lab Technician / Food Science Technician (Contractor)
• Tested packaging materials using an Instron 5565 to test tensile stress
• Performed Drop/Cook test analyzation
• Was responsible for all lab/sample bag making
• Utilized knowledge of packaging material and bag styles
• Performed various sustainability tests
• Performed bench mark lab sauces, adhering to HACCP and company policies
• Initiated updates to ongoing packaging library
Pinnacle Foods, Parsippany NJ November 2012 – April 2013
R & D Coordinator (Contractor)
• Strong ability to work in multiple cross-functional teams
• Modified German chocolate cooking directions, which resolved customer complaints
• Developed, managed and created new resources for Duncan Hines
• Worked Armour, Nalley, Chlorinated and non-malted flours on German chocolates, adhering
regulatory compliance and company policies
• Created purchase order numbers, process and track all R&D dry invoices
• Created spreadsheets to track specification updates and expense budget report
• Resolved discrepancies between purchased items and specifications
• Corrective preventive actions to reduce department expenditure
L’Oreal USA, Piscataway NJ August 2012 – November 2012
Laboratory Logistics Coordinator (Contractor)
• Participated in technology improvements to run master data clean-up
• Automated master data clean up from roughly six to eight hours to two minutes
• Managed master data in SAP; alerts, excess and obsolete, code creation and health of inventory
New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Proved capable to solving challenging problems never before known
• Applied many essential skills in the Laboratory; such as, maintaining a clear statement on
objectives, constructing experimental plan of how objectives will be accomplished, and recording
data in a laboratory notebook
• Wrote scholarly journal papers, proposal requests papers, industrial executive memos and oral
presentations (technical translation)
• Performed analytical experiments to learn how use a spectrophotometer and to understand the
fundamentals of spectroscopy to determine UV-Vis spectrophotometer
• Obtained a basic understanding through the paradigm of comparing metals, ceramics and
polymers; understanding their atomic and molecular structures, nano-scale, morphology, phase
transformations and structure development during processing
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